[SWLUG] Awk is driving me MAD!

[Terry John]

There's no such thing as giving up

This works on my Sun box

grep -v ^# /etc/hosts > myhosts
awk '{printf("%s IN A %s\n", $2, $1);}' myhosts

SunOS 5.8
Hi,
  
That makes it a lot shorter! :-) ...but does not work on the Sun[1] :-(
Thanks for trying anyway, it might be something very slightly different for
the Sun but I'm not an awk whizz or have the books. I will give it a go on
my Linux box later, which I suspect will like it ok.

 Given that this is a Linux forum y'a might as well say so what if the Sun
won't run it? Who cares?...



[1] awk '!/^#/{ printf("%s IN A %s\n", $2, $1); }'  /etc/hosts 
    /^#/{: Event not found

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